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ABSTRACT: Improving Learning Efficiency of Factual Knowledge in Medical Education

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review is to synthesize recent literature relating to factual knowledge acquisition and retention and to explore its applications to medical education. RESULTS: Distributing, or spacing, practice is superior to massed practice (i.e. cramming). Testing, compared to re-study, produces better learning and knowledge retention, especially if tested as retrieval

Posted on 6 May 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Resources

RESOURCE: ELearning Evolution The Past 10 Years

What I find most interesting with the progress over the years are how the technology is just now starting to impact methodology of content delivery.By this I mean that the technology has allowed us to think more creatively about how we deliver learning material to a group of individuals. Flipped classrooms

RESOURCE: Learning How to Practice Medicine—Virtually

Physicians assistants are highly paid medical professionals who provide a lot of the same healthcare services that doctors do. They take patient histories and perform physical exams, diagnose illnesses and develop treatment plans, prescribe medications and counsel patients. And in surgical settings, they suture wounds and assist with the procedures. PAs,

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Medical Education, Resources

ABSTRACT: Medical education research: a vibrant community of research and education practice

OBJECTIVES: Medical education research is thriving. In recent decades, numbers of journals and publications have increased enormously, as have the number and size of medical education meetings around the world. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the origins of this success. My central argument is that

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Informatics & Analysis, Medical Education, Resources

ABSTRACT: Evaluation of use of e-Learning in undergraduate radiology education: a review.

PURPOSE: The aim of this review is to investigate the evaluative outcomes present in the literature according to Kirkpatrick's learning model and to examine the nature and characteristics of the e-Learning interventions in radiology education at undergraduate level. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, Eric) are searched for publications related to

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Online Learning, Resources

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ABSTRACT: Improving Learning Efficiency of Factual Knowledge in Medical Education

RESOURCE: ELearning Evolution The Past 10 Years

RESOURCE: Learning How to Practice Medicine—Virtually

ABSTRACT: Medical education research: a vibrant community of research and education practice

ABSTRACT: Evaluation of use of e-Learning in undergraduate radiology education: a review.

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